My Vlogs

The idea behind my vlogs is to keep it simple, I really enjoying using images to create movement into a video, I think it starts doing interesting things when they are put together so I thought this was a perfect opportunity to give it a go and start playing around. So I want a majority of my vlogs to be animations, an abstract form while still getting a message across about the environment across at the same time. Something new, different and fresh I guess you could say.
I'm terrible with audio so will try look into some open source beats on the net that will fit in well with quick moving images etc.

Website - Let's Grow

Here is the link (I Hope!!!)
http://taniahockings.com/letsgrow/homeletsgrow.html

RSS feed

my rss feed is from about.com

images

from my site

Conclusion

Happy with the overall result, but if I had more time (or managed my time a bit better) and more time with tutors to understand all the complicated stuff then would like to have done this.....Firstly have a fact of the day that filters through, people can add comments. Secondly as they add the little pictures of environmental issues to the world the ability to make their mark and add their own fact...helping the world grow in knowledge and learning with a bit of fun. And also so the map does not clear each time you reload the page and the possibilitie of people logging in and having their own personal map. Just things I would have liked to have played around with and tried to figure out a bit more. Otherwise I think i is successfully interesting and interactive.

Moving on

Have got all pages done and my flash all linked together. last step is to link my joomla page to my other htmls after that all done and hopefully working fine and dandy.

Ahhhh!!!

Have had huge problems with wordpress and joomla. Had not anticipated this or realised how complicated it could potentially be! Started off with wordpress but for some reason could not get RSS feed going so switched to joomla. Got this eventually working, an RSS feed and blog up and running but unfortunately could not achieve what I originally envisioned...the comment of the day, and am not completley satisfied with the layout either. Have spent too much time concentrating on my flash aspect that this has suffered but hopefully the interactive side with my flash will make up for this. Spent at least 5 hours where I achieved nothing...very frustrating.

Sub pages

My sub pages are information or mainly facts about each environmental issue.....transport, people, energy, forestry, water, fisheries, agriculture, factories, oil. Trying to keep the layout fairly simple with a running theme throughout.

Also did sub pages for continents but have decided not to use them, would be much of the same...creating extra pages I don't really need.

Too ambitious!!!!

I think my overall initial idea was too ambitious for the time period and my fairly basic knowledge in flash, however I'm still succeeding in some parts and is starting to come together a bit more.....this is my main page...new name LET'S GROW!

Fact bubbles

Started making fact bubbles that pop up.....

Struggling With Flash

Am struggling with some aspects of flash and is difficult to get the one on one time and help I need so have had to "dumb" it down a bit. Instead of adding per say to the world you kind of scroll through the various environmental things...which are, transport, people, energy, forestry, water, fisheries, agriculture, factories and oil. All major global issues effecting our environment.

Flash

Talked to Rowan and the easiest way to achieve what I want is through flash, where possibly as you add things to the world, numbers go up and as it reaches a certain number a pop up fact of some sort comes up relating to the environmental issue. Heres the world, good starting point!

Watch Our World Grow

Original idea...want to have a world map, where people can drag different environmental things (eg. water, trees, oil etc) and as they drag it effects overall stats showing how much of that you have added to the world. You can click on various areas and receive quick facts about continent issues and what needs to be improved etc. Also want as my front page a "fact of the day" that people can add to and will cycle through and change everyday.

Project 2

Looking at an environmental, fact based site, looking at various world environmental issues and providing people with interesting facts they can learn and add to